This book belongs to the list "101 books to read before you die" and a real page turner that you won't be able to put down. Written by Vikas Swarup an Indian diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia, and Great Brita and currently working in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008. The movie "Slumdog millionaire" was based on this book.
Forensic science is increasingly important in solving crime, and millions of people all over the world are captivated by the TV programmes "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: New York" currently being shown on Channel 5.
Education and Career Choice reports on a research project that offers a new perspective on post-sixteen transitions. Using an approach that combines a synthesis of secondary data with the collection and analysis of narrative accounts it describes how young people in the UK make choices at the end of their compulsory schooling. It presents a dynamic model of decision-making that is unconstrained by currently fashionable theoretical concepts and provides a thorough critique of the current state of research in this area.
An authoritative panel of researchers and clinicians critically reviews the entire field to provide a comprehensive guide to modern brain tumor immunotherapy and thereby enhance future research in this area. The contributors detail many of the key laboratory experiments and clinical protocols that are currently being investigated, integrate the available information from previous and ongoing research.
David Duncan is a Canadian fantasy author. He was born in 1933 in Scotland, and educated there at the High School of Dundee and at the University of St Andrews. After graduating in 1955 he moved to Canada where he lived in Calgary, Alberta, and is currently situated on Vancouver Island in Victoria. He has been married since 1959 to his wife, Janet, and currently has one son, two daughters, and four grandchildren.
He started writing fantasy novels in 1984 and made his first sale ("A Rose Red City") in 1986, at which point he switched to full-time writing, after 31 years as a geologist in the petroleum industry. Although Duncan usually uses his own name, he has written as Ken Hood and also used a female pseudonym Sarah B. Franklin.
